All posts tagged with: Alex Whitmore

Conor Thomas’ injury-time penalty gave Cheltenham Town a valuable 2-1 victory over Grimsby Town, who will feel unfortunate not to have taken all three points themselves. Here’s our Player Ratings from the game. Cheltenham Town Scott Flinders – after a November during which Flinders was not called into action too much due to Cheltenham’s organization,… Read more →

Conor Thomas’ injury-time penalty gave Cheltenham Town a valuable 2-1 victory over Grimsby Town, who will feel unfortunate not to have taken all three points themselves. Here’s our Six Things from the game. Grimsby’s strong left side Michael Jolley’s side started on the front foot and their play down the left flank was a major… Read more →

With the 2018-19 League Two season not far away, The Football Lab spoke to Grimsby Town fan Paul Maddison (@LouthBigDog)… Over the last six months, there seems to have been two strong feelings at Grimsby: discontent with John Fenty’s ownership and excitement over Michael Jolley’s managerial potential. Would you say that the latter emotion has… Read more →

The award for Tuesday’s shock result in the EFL goes to Bury’s 3-0 win over Oxford. It felt similar to their 5-1 victory over Peterborough in January last year, in that they had been on such a bad run of form – no wins since the opening day – that no-one expected it. Until that… Read more →

George Honeyman netted his first goal for Sunderland, helping the Black Cats through to the second round of the EFL Cup with a 1-0 win at Bury – but how did players on both teams fare? Here’s our ratings. Bury Joe Murphy – made an excellent save from McGeady early on and used his experience… Read more →

George Honeyman netted his first goal for Sunderland, helping the Black Cats through to the second round of the EFL Cup with a 1-0 win at Bury – but what are the seven talking points from the game? Using the left We saw an end-to-end opening to the contest with both teams attacking down the… Read more →

These teams last met in the second week of the season at the Globe. Pre-match, Gary Bowyer was given a positive reception from the away fans and after two wins in league and cup, his side went 1-0 ahead in a strong first half. One wondered if maybe, just maybe, this could be the start… Read more →